Zed with Shaco
How to Synergize Zed and Shaco
based on 4,435 Zed with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Zed with Shaco
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Understand How Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Zed Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Zed in LoL
The Zed Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Shaco, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Shaco supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shaco.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Shaco on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no top ally for Zed that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Shaco is a very typical ally for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Zed and Shaco that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players must be cautious when lining up Shaco comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Zed players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Shaco together, you will not be providing your other allies much utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to work well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Zed and Shaco synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shaco than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Shaco with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Zed and Shaco pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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